Name
stat — display file or file system status
Synopsis
stat [OPTION...] FILE...
DESCRIPTION
Display file or file system status.
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
−L,−−dereference-
follow links
−f,−−file−system-
display file system status instead of file status
−c−−format=FORMAT-
use the specified FORMAT instead of the default; output a newline after each use of FORMAT
−−printf=FORMAT-
like
−−format, but interpret backslash escapes, and do not output a mandatory trailing newline. If you want a newline, include \n in FORMAT −t,−−terse-
print the information in terse form
−−help-
display this help and exit
−−version-
output version information and exit
The valid format sequences for files (without −−file−system):
- %a
-
access rights in octal
- %A
-
access rights in human readable form
- %b
-
number of blocks allocated (see %B)
- %B
-
the size in bytes of each block reported by %b
- %C
-
SELinux security context string
- %d
-
device number in decimal
- %D
-
device number in hex
- %f
-
raw mode in hex
- %F
-
file type
- %g
-
group ID of owner
- %G
-
group name of owner
- %h
-
number of hard links
- %i
-
inode number
- %m
-
mount point
- %n
-
file name
- %N
-
quoted file name with dereference if symbolic link
- %o
-
optimal I/O transfer size hint
- %s
-
total size, in bytes
- %t
-
major device type in hex
- %T
-
minor device type in hex
- %u
-
user ID of owner
- %U
-
user name of owner
- %w
-
time of file birth, human−readable; − if unknown
- %W
-
time of file birth, seconds since Epoch; 0 if unknown
- %x
-
time of last access, human−readable
- %X
-
time of last access, seconds since Epoch
- %y
-
time of last modification, human−readable
- %Y
-
time of last modification, seconds since Epoch
- %z
-
time of last change, human−readable
- %Z
-
time of last change, seconds since Epoch
Valid format sequences for file systems:
- %a
-
free blocks available to non−superuser
- %b
-
total data blocks in file system
- %c
-
total file nodes in file system
- %d
-
free file nodes in file system
- %f
-
free blocks in file system
- %i
-
file system ID in hex
- %l
-
maximum length of filenames
- %n
-
file name
- %s
-
block size (for faster transfers)
- %S
-
fundamental block size (for block counts)
- %t
-
file system type in hex
- %T
-
file system type in human readable form
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Note |
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Your shell may have its own version of stat, which usually supersedes the version described here. Please refer to your shell's documentation for details about the options it supports. |
REPORTING BUGS
Report stat bugs to bug−coreutils@gnu.org
GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
Report stat translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>
SEE ALSO
The full documentation for stat is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and stat programs are properly installed at your site, the command
-
info coreutils 'stat invocation'
should give you access to the complete manual.
| COPYRIGHT |
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Copyright © 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. |